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A review by adawada
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Did not finish book. Stopped at 47%.
DNFd at almost 50%. I found this book quite boring and even though there’s an apparent plot twist that everyone keeps talking about, I’m just not intrigued enough to read on and find out what it is.
I found the characters quite annoying. Isabel is painted out to be “boring”, stuck up, paranoid and clueless whilst Eva is a free spirit. Isabel’s brothers’s personalities sounded too similar. I hate the notion that no one could fathom that Isabel might actually be okay to be alone in the house—what’s wrong with being an introvert? Instead she’s constantly being told to loosen up, to have some fun, to go and meet people.
What irritated me the most is the dialogues. I’m not a fan of books with groups of people because I often find dialogues unbelievable, no one talks like that in real life.
And the sex scenes. I couldn’t picture what was happening from the descriptions which made it hard to feel anything? They always ended before anything interesting happened and even in the short amount that I’ve read, there were too many.
The one thing I liked about this book was the build up of the tension. Up to a point where it became unbearable and I’ve simply lost interest.
It’s a shame because so many people raved about this book. I’m glad I’ve rented it from the library rather than spend money on it. It just wasn’t for me.
I found the characters quite annoying. Isabel is painted out to be “boring”, stuck up, paranoid and clueless whilst Eva is a free spirit. Isabel’s brothers’s personalities sounded too similar. I hate the notion that no one could fathom that Isabel might actually be okay to be alone in the house—what’s wrong with being an introvert? Instead she’s constantly being told to loosen up, to have some fun, to go and meet people.
What irritated me the most is the dialogues. I’m not a fan of books with groups of people because I often find dialogues unbelievable, no one talks like that in real life.
And the sex scenes. I couldn’t picture what was happening from the descriptions which made it hard to feel anything? They always ended before anything interesting happened and even in the short amount that I’ve read, there were too many.
The one thing I liked about this book was the build up of the tension. Up to a point where it became unbearable and I’ve simply lost interest.
It’s a shame because so many people raved about this book. I’m glad I’ve rented it from the library rather than spend money on it. It just wasn’t for me.